Michael C. Hall Archives

Paycheck (2003)

Rating: ★★

Apr 6, 2004Precognition/Action Film/Philip K. Dick Adaptation

This Philip K. Dick adaptation has a great premise – Ben Affleck is an engineer with a blanked memory blanked only to find he has left himself clues from the future of things that are starting to come true. Alas, this is reduced to an action vehicle in the hands of John Woo

Director: John Woo

Actors: Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman, Aaron Eckhart, Colm Feore, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 April 200431 January 2025 by Roog

Gamer (2009)

Rating: ★★

Jan 30, 2010Future Live-Action Videogames

Film somewhere between Counterstrike and The Running Man where convicts are controlled as avatars inside a live-action videogame. A difficult to believe premise that is pumped up with hyper-adrenalised action visuals

Director: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine

Actors: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Amber Valletta, Logan Lerman, …

Category: Science Fiction

30 January 201025 October 2025 by Roog

Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)

Rating: ★★

Nov 18, 2016Animation/Alternate World Justice League

An alternate world take on DC Comics characters, who are much more morally ambiguous – Superman is General Zod's son and Batman's role is taken by Man-Bat and is an actual vampire

Director: Sam Liu

Actors: Benjamin Bratt, Michael C. Hall, Tamara Taylor, C. Thomas Howell, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 November 201617 May 2026 by Roog

In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)

Rating: ★★★★

Oct 27, 2019Time Travel

Jim Mickle film that starts out as though a police procedural, possibly a supernatural horror film, and then performs an astonishing series of twists to become something else altogether and an absolute must see

Director: Jim Mickle

Actors: Boyd Holbrook, Cleopatra Coleman, Bokeem Woodbine, Michael C. Hall, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 October 201917 April 2026 by Roog